Author: Marcus du Sautoy
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541601297
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A “fun” and “unexpected” (The Economist) global tour of the world’s greatest games and the mathematics that underlies them Where should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Monopoly? And how can pi help you win rock paper scissors? Spanning millennia, oceans and continents, countries and cultures, Around the World in Eighty Games gleefully explores how mathematics and games have always been deeply intertwined. Renowned mathematician Marcus du Sautoy investigates how games provided the first opportunities for deep mathematical insight into the world, how understanding math can help us play games better, and how both math and games are integral to human psychology and culture. For as long as there have been people, there have been games, and for nearly as long, we have been exploring and discovering mathematics. A grand adventure, Around the World in Eighty Games teaches us not just how games are won, but how they, and their math, shape who we are.
Bird Bingo
Author: Christine Berrie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781856699174
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781856699174
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Around the World in Eighty Games
Author: Marcus du Sautoy
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541601297
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A “fun” and “unexpected” (The Economist) global tour of the world’s greatest games and the mathematics that underlies them Where should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Monopoly? And how can pi help you win rock paper scissors? Spanning millennia, oceans and continents, countries and cultures, Around the World in Eighty Games gleefully explores how mathematics and games have always been deeply intertwined. Renowned mathematician Marcus du Sautoy investigates how games provided the first opportunities for deep mathematical insight into the world, how understanding math can help us play games better, and how both math and games are integral to human psychology and culture. For as long as there have been people, there have been games, and for nearly as long, we have been exploring and discovering mathematics. A grand adventure, Around the World in Eighty Games teaches us not just how games are won, but how they, and their math, shape who we are.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541601297
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A “fun” and “unexpected” (The Economist) global tour of the world’s greatest games and the mathematics that underlies them Where should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Monopoly? And how can pi help you win rock paper scissors? Spanning millennia, oceans and continents, countries and cultures, Around the World in Eighty Games gleefully explores how mathematics and games have always been deeply intertwined. Renowned mathematician Marcus du Sautoy investigates how games provided the first opportunities for deep mathematical insight into the world, how understanding math can help us play games better, and how both math and games are integral to human psychology and culture. For as long as there have been people, there have been games, and for nearly as long, we have been exploring and discovering mathematics. A grand adventure, Around the World in Eighty Games teaches us not just how games are won, but how they, and their math, shape who we are.
Kids Around the World Play!
Author: Arlette N. Braman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471235083
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Play games from all around the globe! Learn to play Mexican kickball. Practice throwing jackstones the way kids do in Kenya. Discover how to construct a galimoto (wire toy from Malawi) with pipe cleaners. With Kids Around the World Play!, you'll have a great time exploring the traditions of other cultures while you sharpen your wits with the memory game from South Africa called dithwai, or challenge your racing skills in the South Korean flower relay, or make your own cool bilboquet, a toy from France. Filled with games and activities from places near and far, including China, Japan, india, Mexico, Bolivia, italy, and Russia, among many others, this exciting collection also gives you plenty of fascinating facts about the history and culture of each country. All the toys and games can be made or played with just a few simple materials easily found around the house. So get ready for tons of fun and excitement while you discover just how much you have in common with kids around the world!
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471235083
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Play games from all around the globe! Learn to play Mexican kickball. Practice throwing jackstones the way kids do in Kenya. Discover how to construct a galimoto (wire toy from Malawi) with pipe cleaners. With Kids Around the World Play!, you'll have a great time exploring the traditions of other cultures while you sharpen your wits with the memory game from South Africa called dithwai, or challenge your racing skills in the South Korean flower relay, or make your own cool bilboquet, a toy from France. Filled with games and activities from places near and far, including China, Japan, india, Mexico, Bolivia, italy, and Russia, among many others, this exciting collection also gives you plenty of fascinating facts about the history and culture of each country. All the toys and games can be made or played with just a few simple materials easily found around the house. So get ready for tons of fun and excitement while you discover just how much you have in common with kids around the world!
Instrument Bingo
Author: Cheryl (COP) Lavender
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781423444671
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
(Music First Express). Instrument Bingo is designed to improve your students' aural perceptions of the tone color and characteristic sounds produced by many familiar musical instruments. Includes 30 player cards, caller cards, a special recording (with six different sequences of sound samples of each level) and helpful instructions for using the game. Available: game/cassette pak, game/CD pak, replacement cassette and replacement CD (set of 2). For all ages.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781423444671
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
(Music First Express). Instrument Bingo is designed to improve your students' aural perceptions of the tone color and characteristic sounds produced by many familiar musical instruments. Includes 30 player cards, caller cards, a special recording (with six different sequences of sound samples of each level) and helpful instructions for using the game. Available: game/cassette pak, game/CD pak, replacement cassette and replacement CD (set of 2). For all ages.
Flags of the World
Author: A. G. Smith
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486485269
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Become an expert at identifying flags from nations around the world with this brightly colored sticker collection. Each of the 96 stickers represents the colors, patterns, symbols, and crests of international flags, from Algeria to Zimbabwe. All are identified and keyed to a map of the world.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486485269
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Become an expert at identifying flags from nations around the world with this brightly colored sticker collection. Each of the 96 stickers represents the colors, patterns, symbols, and crests of international flags, from Algeria to Zimbabwe. All are identified and keyed to a map of the world.
Farmyard Bingo
Author: Make Believe Ideas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848799028
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
B - I - N - G - O ! Farmyard Bingo is a delightful new game which children and parents can enjoytogether. The simple game of luck will captivate children and keep thementertained as they try their hardest to win. The box contains chunky cardsthat are easy to hold and a spinner to decide which animal comes up next. Thebrightly colored fun pictures will have children laughing and excited to filltheir boxes and finally shout "Bingo!"
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848799028
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
B - I - N - G - O ! Farmyard Bingo is a delightful new game which children and parents can enjoytogether. The simple game of luck will captivate children and keep thementertained as they try their hardest to win. The box contains chunky cardsthat are easy to hold and a spinner to decide which animal comes up next. Thebrightly colored fun pictures will have children laughing and excited to filltheir boxes and finally shout "Bingo!"
Origins
Author: Eric Drouant
Publisher: Eric Drouant
ISBN: 1492726796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
New Orleans, 1973 - The CIA uncovers two young kids with uncanny psychic ability. The ability to Remote View makes Cassie and Ronnie high value assets in the Cold War contest playing out in the early 1970's. It also makes them high value targets for a madman seeking power. Thorne, a renegade agent, sets out to capture the pair of young psychics and use them to cement his own position within the clandestine world of espionage. What Thorne doesn't know is that Cassie and Ronnie won't go easily.Backs against the wall, the two young psychics must face overwhelming odds to maintain their freedom and control of their own lives. A deadly chase, played out against the backdrop of the Cold War, leaves death and devastation in its wake. When push comes to shove, Cassie Reynold proves to be the deadliest girl you'll ever meet.
Publisher: Eric Drouant
ISBN: 1492726796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
New Orleans, 1973 - The CIA uncovers two young kids with uncanny psychic ability. The ability to Remote View makes Cassie and Ronnie high value assets in the Cold War contest playing out in the early 1970's. It also makes them high value targets for a madman seeking power. Thorne, a renegade agent, sets out to capture the pair of young psychics and use them to cement his own position within the clandestine world of espionage. What Thorne doesn't know is that Cassie and Ronnie won't go easily.Backs against the wall, the two young psychics must face overwhelming odds to maintain their freedom and control of their own lives. A deadly chase, played out against the backdrop of the Cold War, leaves death and devastation in its wake. When push comes to shove, Cassie Reynold proves to be the deadliest girl you'll ever meet.
Beyond My Wildest Dreams
Author: Ron Gibbens
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 1977221092
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
This is the story of heartbreak, struggle, and relentless parental support for Mike Gibbens, who was born with cerebral palsy. Battling a school system that separated their son from his neighborhood friends while facing financial difficulties from high medical costs, Mike’s parents vowed to find a way to improve the situation. As they searched for solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems in a world that wasn’t prepared to accept people with disabilities, Ron and Faye Gibbens were instrumental in founding a support group—North Dakota Association for the Disabled (NDAD)—in the early 1970s. With $83.72 in the NDAD bank account, the couple volunteered their spare time, while working full time, to nurture NDAD into a vibrant charitable organization that has since provided more than $56 million in vital disability services not provided by other organizations or agencies.
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 1977221092
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
This is the story of heartbreak, struggle, and relentless parental support for Mike Gibbens, who was born with cerebral palsy. Battling a school system that separated their son from his neighborhood friends while facing financial difficulties from high medical costs, Mike’s parents vowed to find a way to improve the situation. As they searched for solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems in a world that wasn’t prepared to accept people with disabilities, Ron and Faye Gibbens were instrumental in founding a support group—North Dakota Association for the Disabled (NDAD)—in the early 1970s. With $83.72 in the NDAD bank account, the couple volunteered their spare time, while working full time, to nurture NDAD into a vibrant charitable organization that has since provided more than $56 million in vital disability services not provided by other organizations or agencies.
The Golden Cube
Author: Matt Taylor
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291334491
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
A cross between Dan Brown and Ben Elton with a healthy splash of David Icke. Imagine a world where space travel, cellular regeneration, perfect engines, space travel, aliens, reincarnation and a host of other marvels are common place, but no-one but an elite few know about them. Amongst these elite few are God, Satan and group militaristic human Illuminati who are constantly playing a game with Satan over how the world is ordered. Leonardo "Bingo" Ashman, a small time political activist eking out an existence in Brighton, lives in such a world, and who knows, maybe we do too. What he doesn't know is he is very special and when he comes into possession of the Golden Cube, he is cast into a new and strange world with his travelling companion, a cellularly regenerated Queen Elizabeth II. The adventure leads them all over Western Europe and eventually to the Scottish Isles where the fate of all mankind rests in his hands. Matt Taylor needs to be signed up by a publisher. Quickly.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291334491
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
A cross between Dan Brown and Ben Elton with a healthy splash of David Icke. Imagine a world where space travel, cellular regeneration, perfect engines, space travel, aliens, reincarnation and a host of other marvels are common place, but no-one but an elite few know about them. Amongst these elite few are God, Satan and group militaristic human Illuminati who are constantly playing a game with Satan over how the world is ordered. Leonardo "Bingo" Ashman, a small time political activist eking out an existence in Brighton, lives in such a world, and who knows, maybe we do too. What he doesn't know is he is very special and when he comes into possession of the Golden Cube, he is cast into a new and strange world with his travelling companion, a cellularly regenerated Queen Elizabeth II. The adventure leads them all over Western Europe and eventually to the Scottish Isles where the fate of all mankind rests in his hands. Matt Taylor needs to be signed up by a publisher. Quickly.
All Countries, Capitals and Flags of the World
Author: Smart Smart Kids
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781717927064
Category : Emblems, National
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The book was completely updated on April 7, 2021! All information, maps of continents, names of all countries and capitals have been updated and up-to-date as of March 17, 2021! USA Map Updated A lot of new interesting information has also been added. Is your child developing an interest in the wider world? Are they starting to ask questions you can't answer? Would you like to be able to assist them with homework or other school projects? The world continues to contract as the years go by Air travel, the Internet and mobile telephones mean that we can travel and communicate in ways we would never have imagined even just 100 years ago.So, when your child asks about a country in Africa, or a city in South America, what do you say? This book, All Countries, Capitals and Flags of the World, was written to help you when your child becomes interested in the world around them. It contains chapters on: Continents All the countries of the world (for each continent separately) Transcontinental countries Populations Flags Capital cities MAPS OF EACH CONTINENT ! as well as a BONUS! (pp. 32-40) Children of any age will love learning about the colorful flags, capital cities and interesting facts about countries from around the world and parents will find it useful for testing a child's knowledge of geography.An ideal birthday gift, or as a reward for good behavior, if your child is craving knowledge about the countries of the world then this book is a 'must read' for them.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781717927064
Category : Emblems, National
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The book was completely updated on April 7, 2021! All information, maps of continents, names of all countries and capitals have been updated and up-to-date as of March 17, 2021! USA Map Updated A lot of new interesting information has also been added. Is your child developing an interest in the wider world? Are they starting to ask questions you can't answer? Would you like to be able to assist them with homework or other school projects? The world continues to contract as the years go by Air travel, the Internet and mobile telephones mean that we can travel and communicate in ways we would never have imagined even just 100 years ago.So, when your child asks about a country in Africa, or a city in South America, what do you say? This book, All Countries, Capitals and Flags of the World, was written to help you when your child becomes interested in the world around them. It contains chapters on: Continents All the countries of the world (for each continent separately) Transcontinental countries Populations Flags Capital cities MAPS OF EACH CONTINENT ! as well as a BONUS! (pp. 32-40) Children of any age will love learning about the colorful flags, capital cities and interesting facts about countries from around the world and parents will find it useful for testing a child's knowledge of geography.An ideal birthday gift, or as a reward for good behavior, if your child is craving knowledge about the countries of the world then this book is a 'must read' for them.